Fun and Fancy.

Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 24

Fun and Fancy.

Lines by Mrs Cimabue Brown. — ' Sixty Boston students recently appeared at Mr Oscar Wilde's lecture attired in white waistcoats and knee-breeches, and wearing sun-flowers in their button-holes' (American paper)': — Shame on those Boston students who dare our Bard

to Mock, And turn our Lustrous Lily into a Laughing Stock ! '

Capping Him,— Dr Switcher (who had discovered ' bull's-eyes ' aboutj and traced them to the original donor) : ' Don't you know. Muggins, there's an old proverb that " Fools give feasts, and wise men eat them ?" ' Muggins : 'Yes, sir; and there's another one, sir.' The Doctor : What's that, sir ? Now, sir '-—(noticing a reticence)— ' what is it, sir?' Muggins (seeing no escape) : ' Please, sir, " W-wise men make proverbs, and f-f ools repea — " ' [Catches it.]— Punchy

'ARRY ON 'ORSBBACK. Our 'Arry goes 'unting, and sings with a will, ' The 'orn of the 'untor is 'card on the 'ill ' ; And oft when a saddle looks terribly bare The 'eels of our 'Arry are seen in the air.

The man who makes us laf and don't make us think is cuzzin to the monkey. Josh Billings says that a dog never bites in the same place twice. That's according to which part of a man gets over the fence last. There is a scandal in the Philadelphia bar. • Some of the lawyers have lapsed into the careless and disrespectful habit of addressing the Court while wearing their overcoats.' A man was mobbed in a small town in Illinois the other day because he wore a collar. They thought he was Oscar # Wilde. You can't come any of the aesthetic business out there. A bachelor, who was asked by a romantic young lady, ' Why he did not secure some fond one's company in his voyage on the ocean of life,' replied, 'I would if I were sure such an ocean would be pacific' The scamp knew himself too well. He slipped quietly in at the door, but catching sight of an inquiring face over the stair-rail, said, ' Sorry so late, my dear ; but couldn't get a car before.' 'So the cars were full too,' said the lady, and further remarks were unnecessary. ' Johnnie, here you are at the breakfast table and your face is unwashed,^ said his mother, with a sharp look. ' I know it ma. I saw the animalcules in pa's microscope last night, and I ain't going to have those things crawling all over my face with their funny little legs.' Master Tommy (he had been very naughty and was now amusing himself with the Scripture prints—' Here is Daniel in the lions' don !' Mamma (incautiously)—' Ah ! what was he cast into the lions' den for ?' Master Tommy (with triumph)-r* Cause he was good.'— New York Evening Post. Professor in the high daughter-school : I have to you, my young ladies, in the last hour communicated," that the brain of the man larger is than that of tho woman. What conclude you thereout, TTranlion Bertha ?' Bertha : ' That it v/Hh Ujo Wasu not upon the quantity, but upun 1 the quality, depends, 5